Students at Qatar University have built a prototype search-and-rescue robot that combines a virtual reality headset, a 360-degree camera and artificial intelligence to find people. The Qatar Mobility Innovations Centre (QMIC) is showing it at Mobile World Congress (MWC26) in Doha.
Student developer Marcus Wein Monteiro said the operator steers the robot through the headset towards a person it has detected. The robot is being used for demonstrations and remote-control tests in a Qatar University building. The team spent about a year building it and four more months improving it, and QMIC helped it get better parts to cut delay and improve accuracy.
QMIC executive director Mohammed al-Sada said the centre takes research from universities and institutes and turns it into systems that industry in Qatar can use.
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Qatar University
University
A university in Qatar whose students built a search-and-rescue robot prototype.
Qatar Mobility Innovations Centre
Research centre
A national research centre in Qatar, set up in 2009, that turns university research into systems for industry.
Mohammed al-Sada
Executive director of QMIC
The executive director of the Qatar Mobility Innovations Centre.
